So, I am up late studying and praying after everyone has gone to sleep. I find this time to be one of the best times to reflect and listen. As some of you may know I am in a doctoral program where I am looking at those who are on the margins of society (people of color in some cases and those with disabilities) and asking the question: what are the barriers and solutions to see us trained and mobilized into God’s mission?” I am just getting started but already the pages and books are piling up.
This week I have had a mundane week and have grown a bit weary of explaining the faint voice of those on the margins and why that may be the case. I was just listening to an interview on the topic of disability and the Church where a question was asked that put me back on my heels. The question encapsulated everything I want to do in the next four years of study. “When someone with a disability comes into your church, maybe the first question shouldn’t be ‘how can I pray for them’ but ‘how can they pray for me’?”
Until the command of Jesus to make disciples of all nations and the pouring out of His Spirit means that all get to play, that all participate, then we simply have not understood the Gospel. One simple question can change it all. As we see someone who we have labeled the other, marginalized, or oppressed and we cannot conceive how they will take the Gospel to the ends of the earth than the Good News is not good news. All flesh, all nations, all peoples, all ages, all abilities – we all get to play.
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